Chapter 113
When Ivona left to go to the mountains on the border between the Land of Exile and the lower realm, Michelle secluded herself in the dark annex and sent a wisp of her consciousness into her spatial bracelet. For a few days, she just observed how the space worked, the flow of spirit energy in it, before she decided it was the right time to try reshaping the space for the first time.
Frown when she was starightening the space twists, she knew that direct force wasn’t a good try and that she should try to use harmony to do anything with the space since she had a contract with it, but her instincts were telling her to use force. Still, since she had already tried to use it once and felt the exhaustion of trying brute force against space, she decided to try that as a last resort if she couldn’t think of anything else.
So, just like when she was straughtening the space twists, she seeped her wisp of consciousness into the space and spread her spirit and soul energy around a part of the space and imagined what she wanted it to look like in her head. Instantly, the space started shifting, but instead of turning into what she wanted, it just struck at her spirit and soul energy and pushed her consciousness out of the bracelet, making her knit her brows together. She didn’t expect that. It seemed that if she didn’t show the space some kind of strength or authority, it would just disregard her.
With a sigh, she sent her wisp of consciousness back into the spatial bracelet, and, unlike before, she didn’t seep it into the space, but stright up forced her spirit energy into all corners of the whole straightened part of the space. Then she did the same with her soul energy. Since harmony didn’t work, she would try something a bit harsh, but not fully forceful.
After her soul and spirit energy filled the usable space, she kept spreading out more of it, letting it seep even into a part of the unusable, twisted-up space before stopping. Then, she remembered the image of what she wanted the space to look like and retracted the energies all at once, like a tsunami rushing toward her. As the wave rushed at her, everywhere it passed turned into a field of frozen ground. In some places, even small snowing clouds appeared.
Seeing that, Michelle was a bit delighted, but not really. The method she used allowed her to alter the whole space, but she wanted to change just a part of it. She was on the right track, but something was wrong. Or maybe she was on a completely wrong track which just resembled the right one.
Since the harsh, but not really forceful, method didn’t work, Michelle considered using brute force, but she still had a few ideas in mind that she could use first. She also had one which she would use only if even brute force failed her.
But she wanted to avoid using it as much as possible, because it wasn’t a method she could use repetitively, as it would completely drain both her spirit and soul energy, so she would have to sleep for over a month again. And with the spirit energy, it wouldn’t just drain the part which she could restore by some cultivating. It could completely drain her body of spirit energy, so she would need to start cultivating all over again. And that thought was highly repulsive. She was quite a lazy person, so she didn’t like returning to things she had already done once.
The next method Michelle wanted to try was basically the same as creating a tsunami of her soul and spirit energy in the spatial bracelet, but she didn’t want to make it so large-scale. She tried hard to keep her soul and spirit energy in a small radius around her wisp of consciousness, but it was like a gas, expansive, so even though the energies were the thickest around her, they still spread all around the room.
And that made her raise a brow in surprise. Whenever she used her soul or spirit energy in the outside world, it tried to stay as close to her as possible, but within the spatial bracelet, it just tried to fill every corner, as if it was no longer in her control once she let it out of her wisp of consciousness. She had never met such an anomaly.
Still, Michelle pulled the energies to her once again and formed a small tsunami with it, but the result that she saw when it ended was, well, to be expected. As in the places further from her, the energies were thinner, the tsunami there was smaller, and only parts of the space there got changed. As the tsunami progressed closer to her, the energies got denser, and the changed parts became bigger. And in a circle around her, where the density of the energies was at its peak, the whole area was changed.